Kimmel dismisses Michelle Wolf criticism: 'Hire a juggler next year'

[DonViejo]

BY AVERY ANAPOL - 04/29/18 06:30 PM EDT

Late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel came to Michelle Wolf’s defense over the backlash to her set at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner.

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Wolf, a former “Daily Show” comedian, sparked a wave of backlash from conservatives and members of the media, many of whom said her comments about White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in particular crossed a line.

Some, including former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, have even called for the WHCA to apologize to Sanders.

Other comedians have come to Wolf’s defense, including Kathy Griffin, who praised Wolf for her “fearless” performance and said that she did what she “was hired to do.”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/385429-kimmel-dismisses-michelle-wolf-criticism-hire-a-juggler-next-year

[oberliner]

1. Or Jay Leno?

[John Fante]

2. The juggler would be funnier.

[Cha]

33. +1

[monmouth4]

3. On my FB site Wolf is getting rave reviews. Papa Huckster is furious about the treatment of his

precious daughter and received a slew of slams who disagreed with him. Much fun today on FB. My particular favorite was a picture of the Huckster entitled "The Angst of Sister Sara" with the thorns and blood. Fun times.

[Exotica]

17. attacking Ivanka is a rich and fruitful vein to tap to make Trump and his Trumpkins' heads explode

Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-ivanka-legitimizing-20180303-story.html


How Ivanka and Donald Trump are wrapped up in an organized crime trail that begins in Panama

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/11/17/how-ivanka-and-donald-trump-are-wrapped-up-in-an-organized-crime-trail-that-begins-in-panama/23280789/


The Two Equally Terrible Sides of Ivanka Trump

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-two-equally-terrible-sides-of-ivanka-trump

[monmouth4]

22. OMG, that is a treasure trove. Many thanks..n/t

[Cha]

34. Thank you for that

report from FB, monmouth

[monmouth4]

40. Brenda Starr on the job!

[sharedvalues]

4. What? Quote Yglesias or Beutler or Josh Marshall

The Hill is a rag. They seriously went to K Griffin for a quote???????

How about quoting some of the really smart, erudite media critics, like Yglesias or Beutler or Josh Marshall or Jay arisen?

[DonViejo]

5. Feel free to post those quotes in this thread.

[sharedvalues]

6. For you, sir, I will. See below.

[DonViejo]

8. It's the weekend, your preferred journalists/critics won't be commenting until Monday, when they

return to work.

[sharedvalues]

16. Some of the smart, honest, forward thinking journalists have actually written in short form

Mostly on Twitter.

Paul Krugman appears to be busy this weekend, but a lot of other good thinkers on media and American public debate have commented.
This is a big story, so perhaps no surprise.


Much respect to you sir. Thanks for your work posting all these articles, even if at times I don't agree with the articles themselves.

[sharedvalues]

7. Jonathan Alter: no worse than the president

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[CakeGrrl]

19. My issue with this: Wolf DID NOT MAKE FUN of Huckabee's looks.

She complimented the 'smoky eye' eyeliner look, created by burning FACTS into ASH.

Where was the physical insult?

People need to stop propagating the notion that Huckabee Sanders was subjected to physical insult.

[John Fante]

29. It's the myth that refuses to die.

Unreal.

[Cha]

35. Tweet from Michelle Wolf, CakeGrrl

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[sharedvalues]

9. Ashley Feinberg: how have we normalized these lies? Should be called out more often

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[sharedvalues]

10. Michelle Goldberg: ridiculous criticism of Wolf

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[sharedvalues]

11. Brian Beutler: pols expected to lie. Journalists that get in on it are far worse.

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[sharedvalues]

12. Jon Lovett: Spicer has no leg to stand on

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[Cha]

36. That's a different Jon Lovett than the one

I knew about.. he's older and craps on Democrats.

I like this one.

[sharedvalues]

13. Greg Sargent: the right wing spin on last night is all in bad faith.

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[sharedvalues]

14. A good read on the problems with the press shown last night, by Jay Rosen

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For two years I have been tracking a speech pattern among American journalists, in which they try to explain to us — and perhaps to themselves — why Donald Trump’s campaign to discredit them is not what it seems, or no big deal. In this post, I am going to show you the pattern (mostly) and comment on it (a bit.) It started during the 2016 campaign…

It's worth reading the whole thing.

[sharedvalues]

15. Jen Chaney: some people in the ball room lie, enable liars, or act nicely to liars.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/michelle-wolf-sarah-huckabee-sanders-whcd-joke.html

Not surprisingly, though, it’s the jabs that Wolf threw at Sanders and other Trump staffers that are getting criticized today, not just because some of them were funny but because they legitimately stung. To acknowledge what actually made the smoky eye line funny meant that some of the people in that ballroom had to reflect on the fact that they either lie, enable liars, or act nicely to liars because that’s what they sometimes have to do to get the information the public deserves to know. That’s the sort of situation that makes people itchy.

But here’s the thing: If the worst thing that happens to you while you’re working for Trump is that a woman from The Daily Show says a few mean things about you while you’re wearing a nice dress, eating a free meal, and drinking some wine, you are still having a better day than a hell of a lot of people in this country.

[spanone]

20. Great Work....Thanks!!

[Cha]

37. Yes, thank you for all your

tweets, sharedvalues.

[misanthrope]

39. Good column

Glad she said it.

[trof]

18. LMAO. Kimmel is great!

[dalton99a]

21. Kick

[sharedvalues]

23. Now Josh Marshall: the WHCA is sad and pathetic, and should've expected Sanders roast

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And full thread

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/990784911736000512.html?refreshed=yes

Thread by @joshtpm:

I wasn’t there. Didn’t watch any of the WHCD. The jokes I’ve been shown don’t strike me as a problem. But it’s incredibly disappointing to see the WHCA throw their comic under the bus like that. It’s actually pathetic. Did they really imagine ANY comic wld create unifying ...
2/ in the sense they’re now describing? That seems ridiculous to me. Political humor is inherently barbed. Given the chronic shitshow of the last 15 months it is all but unimaginable that any legitimate comedy wldnt be barbed. This is sad and pathetic.
3/ It’s also worth noting here that the President sent Sanders as his stand-in. That’s the person who’s there to be roasted. That was clear going in. Again, the standard the WHCA is now setting is that it should have been comedy that was **unobjectionable** to Trump and ...
4/ his supporters. When you put it that way i think it’s clear how impossible a standard that is.

[sharedvalues]

24. Sam Wang (pollster and scientist): Press doesn't grasp democracy on edge

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Exactly. DC press corps has no sense of perspective. They seem not to grasp what a deeply disruptive presidency this is. Quite possibly a transition to a very different phase of history, and democracy at the edge of a cliff. And when they get skewered, they whine.Sam Wang added,

[sharedvalues]

25. Ben Collins (NBC): Horrendous statement from WHCA

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This horrendous statement should be a good call for a recommitment to not playing footsie with this administration—instead valuing reporters who do deep dives on its members and their effect on us, then asking fearless questions, relationships be damned.

[BootinUp]

26. How about...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

27. Michelle Wolf highlighted in great detail how Trump and his administration is not normal.

The journalists in the room who have spent the last year plus turning themselves into pretzels trying to normalize Trump were squirming because the mirror she was holding to their faces didn't reflect the carefully crafted image they have of themselves.

[nolabels]

30. The days of a complicate press are starting be behind us

Nowadays they just put out what their employers desire, more B.S.

Who would have thought growing up that comedy would be the refuge of truth

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

41. Comedy has always been the language of truth.

George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Whoopi Goldberg, Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Richard Pryor, Dick Gregory, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver are just a few who have mastered the art of butchering a sacred cow and revealing its putrid guts to the rest of society. If the WHCA had wanted inoffensive saccharin they should have hired Jay Leno -- or SHS herself.

[Cha]

38. Well put, LLiPalmSprings!

[sharedvalues]

28. Gregory Korte, USA Today: WHCA is broken. Let's fix this.

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p.s. all - thanks for letting me collect responses from a variety of media figures in this thread.

[OnDoutside]

31. Talev's craven statement is appalling and should be of concern to anyone

who believes in free speech, and the role of satire in public discourse. Talev is effectively bowing down in fear of Trump. It doesn't augur well for the press freedom.

[Cha]

32. Tell that to the #WHCD

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Glad so many are coming to Michelle Wolf's defense..

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